I made that ugly sinX last year (around the scenic summer contest) when I was planning to open commission on forum. As you can see, it didn't turn out well.. lol I never like to draw anime or person before but I enjoyed it now specially the coloring part :3

I hope this counts for genuine effort and improvement. My first ragnarok character ever was a female hunter lol.

Bonus note: there was a print out of some old RO skill sim for a falconer build stored with the old drawing, LOL. I have no idea what the website was that I had used.

I'm working on a colored version, but knowing me I'd close out of the program and forget about it until long after the event was over, so I went ahead and submitted. Thanks for motivating me to finally do something i've been saying I'd do for years (redrawing old stuff). It was pretty fun.

Left: Old Drawing (Sorry for potato quality, I don't have the original artwork any longer since my laptop committed seppuku and could only find the one from Photobucket) somewhere about 2006-2008

Right: New Drawing (The only art piece I have committed to finishing since 2009)

I am more comfortable with traditional art with actual pen and paper. For this drawing I used a regular HB2 pencil and sketch paper, cleaned up the art work a bit with photoshop.

Both art works were done traditionally, just I became a lost messier with my art and both were scanned.

Decided to shade some other parts of the drawing and decided not to draw the ugly looking ghost bandana! Thanks for hosting this event, I actually tried to finish an actual sketch at least of something instead of leaving my works half way and leaving myself with little to no practice to improving and simply give up. xD

Before:
I think this was done about 4 years ago? not really sure but should be about the time when i was playing on tro (for like 3 weeks lol)
I'm surprised that i can even find one, last time when i intensively did ro art was in my middle school days

I think we're looking at circa 2003 for the old piece of work. It's been a hot minute since I played Ragnarok and I'm glad to be playing again. Not my best but I also didn't draw a lot of ragnarok fanart back in the day. This was digging in the deep archives. XD

I kinda forgot what brush I used in the old art, but I think it was mainly pen and custom smudge tool, also line tool for the lineart, The new one was combination of water, smudge, airbrush, and marker.